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Developing a"Genetic Scorecard": A World-first for Scotland

The following case study summarises a SEFARI Think Tank involving the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and Scottish Natural Heritage. SEFARI Think Tanks are designed to address challenging and often contested research questions of national and international importance. This project brought together experts to address Aichi Target 13 on the conservation of genetic diversity. The project has established a world-first method to help understand and conserve genetic diversity in some of Scotland's most iconic wild species.

An Internet of (Living) Things: exploring new opportunities for environmental monitoring

To meet many local, national and international policy and business requirements there is a need to monitor the state of Scotland’s natural resources. These commitments span from day to day monitoring of Scotland’s freshwater bodies, so ensuring enough water of the right quality is available for a range of individuals, communities and wildlife; to longer-term monitoring of legally protected and iconic terrestrial and marine habitats and species e.g. Caledonian pinewoods and Capercaillie. A range of policy and management commitments e.g.

Reviewing Ecological Focus Areas: A Cross Pollination of Ideas

Introduction

Professor Georgios Banos

Research Interests:

Development, evaluation and application of computational and statistical methods for the analysis of large sets of farm animal records and genomic data with the aim to extract useful information that unravels the genetic background of economically important traits and facilitates decision making at farm and population level
Methods to improve the accuracy of genomic evaluations and detection of causal mutations, and studies of certain biomarkers as predictors of animal health, fitness, longevity, robustness and welfare.

Georgios Banos

Animal & Veterinary Sciences,

SRUC, Roslin Institute Building,

Easter Bush, Midlothian EH25 9RG

Dr Adam Calo

Adam is interested in how new entrants navigate a variety of access barriers like capital, land, and compliance with agriucltural regulations. In particular, Adam seeks to understand how new entrant farmers are (un)able to hurdle the land access barrier as regimes of private property and balooning land costs make small scale agriculture an increasingly trying land use category.

Adam Calo

James Hutton Institute

Errol Road

Dundee

Scotland

DD2 5DA

Stephen Catterall

Most of Stephen's work at BioSS is related to some kind of mathematical modelling, and he has worked on a wide variety of different projects, including:

Stephen Catterall

BioSS

James Clerk Maxwell Building

Peter Guthrie Tait Road, The King's Buildings

Edinburgh

EH9 3FD

Dr David Cooke

David is a Research Leader in Cell and Molecular Sciences at the James Hutton Institute. His current research interests include:

David Cooke

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

Dr Lucy Gilbert

With a background in behavioural and evolutionary ecology, Lucy is an animal ecologist with an interest in multi-trophic and multi-ecosystem interactions. She currently focuses on three contrasting systems to address questions about connectivity and cascading effects through ecosystems:

Lucy Gilbert

Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

Dr Maddy Giles

Maddy is a soil ecologist working within the Ecological Sciences group at the James Hutton Institute. Her research interests include C and N cycling in soils and how these soil functions can be influenced by microbial communities. Maddy currently works on the NERC funded CZO project Using critical zone science to enhance soil fertility and improve ecosystem services for peri-urban agriculture in China.

Maddy Giles

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

Alistair McVittie

Alistair is an environmental economist with research interests in the evaluation of agricultural and environmental policy, particularly through the application of cost benefit analysis and non-market valuation. Recent work has included the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Quantitative Assessment and inputs into ‘TEEB for Business’ chapter 2; refining and updating the environmental accounts for agriculture; and the development of marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

Alistair McVittie

Scotland’s Rural College

Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings

West Mains Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3JG

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